Hi Guys. Here it is.CHAPTER 12! This is the conclusion of Change of Pace. I
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A special thanks to Angel Officer (formerly known as Officer Durham) for the inspiration to write this story and to my friend Melissa who gave me wonderful advice while reading and reviewing this story (i.e. phrases not to use) :-)
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Third Watch characters, just borrowing them for awhile!
Last part of Chapter 11:
Faith finished dressing and met Bosco outside the locker room. "I'm going outside," she said.
"Okay, I'll be out in a little bit, wait up, okay?"
"Sure," she said and went outside.
"Faith?" came the gentle voice. She turned and saw Fred.
Without further delay, Chapter 12:
"What do you want?" she asked coldly.
"Faith, I, I came to say I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you and I didn't mean for you to find out that way."
"You mean you never meant for me to find out."
He sighed. She approached him.
"You hurt me so badly Fred," she said, tears coming to her eyes again.
"I know. I know I did and I'm sorry."
"What made you do it, huh? What?"
"You weren't around, ever. You worked nights and I got sick and tired of being by myself all the time," he said.
"You knew what I did before we got married. You still wanted to get married," she said.
"Yeah, but I didn't know you'd keep it up after we got married. And I sure as hell didn't expect you to be having an emotional affair on the job," he said, his voice starting to rise. He was getting so pissed off that she was making this solely into his fault, like she had no part whatsoever.
"Okay, so why knowing that you were having an affair, did you put me through all that about the innocent kiss with Bosco? And an emotional affair? Fred, that's ridiculous. I was always faithful to you, I never cheated on you."
"Not physically," he said. Bosco's words. She heard Bosco's words all over again. "And the kiss with Bosco obviously wasn't so innocent, was it Faith? I guess that even though I had Carrie, part of me was really still hurt that you would cheat on me with Bosco. I never would have expected you to cheat on me."
Bosco was watching from the door of the station. He wanted to give her space on this one.
"I've never cheated on you Fred. Not physically and not emotionally."
"Come on, you admitted to me that your heart was always with Bosco."
She swallowed hard.
"All I ever heard about when we were together was Bosco. Hell, for all I know, you guys could have been doing it in the back of a squad car," he said with a sarcastic grin.
She hauled her hand back and slammed him across the face.
Upon seeing her slap Fred, Bosco took that as his cue to come out.
"You fucking bitch," Fred said, rearing his hand back to return the slap when like a flash, Bosco was upon him.
"You wanna hit someone?" Bosco asked, getting between Fred and Faith and pushing him back.
"Fuck off Boscorelli. I've had just about enough of you," Fred said, charging him and pushing him out of the way. Fred headed toward Faith again.
Bosco again got between them. "I don't think so," he said, pushing Fred away.
Just then Sully and Davis were coming out of the station. "What's this?" Sully said as they walked down the stairs.
"This is between me and that bitch," Fred said, raging mad.
He started out to talk to her to apologize and now he was convinced he wasn't wrong.
Bosco pinned him against the wall. Faith stood to the side ready to fight if she had to.
"First of all, don't you ever call her that again, ever. Second of all, not that you'll be in her life anymore, but if I ever see you raise a hand to come after her, not only will I beat the living crap out of you, but I will arrest you," Bosco hissed.
Fred punched Bosco in the face.
"Bosco!" Faith screamed as she ran toward them.
Bosco and Fred were throwing punches at each other.
"Aw, damnit," Sully said as he and Davis got into the mix. Davis restrained Bosco and Sully restrained Fred.
Faith got in the middle of the fisticuffs somehow and Fred, while flailing his arms, landed a hit to her head. She hit the pavement.
"Let me go, Davis," Bosco said, pulling away and going to Faith.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she said.
"Faith, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit you," Fred said, coming out of his state of rage.
"Whatever. I'm warning you, don't come near her again," Bosco said.
"You know, it's really only fitting that you guys are banging each other's brains out now," Fred said, his anger returning. Sully and Davis exchanged a confused look. "I think it was going on for a long time. You cheated, Faith, just as much as I did. Just as much."
"Alright Fred, let them go and get out of here," Sully said.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going," Fred said. "You cheated just as much as me Faith," he said, walking backward to his truck.
"Come on, Faith," Bosco said, helping her up.
"Are you guys okay?" Sully asked.
"Yeah, Sul, thanks. Thanks for jumping in there. You too Davis," Bosco said.
"Sure, no problem. You sure you guys are alright?" Ty asked.
"Yeah, we will be," he said and with that, they walked to his mustang.
"Hey, Sully, what do you think that was about?" Davis asked, as they watched Bosco and Faith walk away. "Well, it was fairly evident Faith's marriage is over. And, it looks like Fred is accusing her of cheating with Bosco," Sully replied.
"Do you think she is?"
"Hell if I know. Maybe. Even before she got married, Davis, she and Bosco had a special sort of bond. I wondered why they didn't get together before she got married. Bosco's quite a character, but Faith has a calming effect on him. It's actually quite miraculous."
"Damn. They do make a cute couple," Davis said.
"Come on, let's grab some food," Sully said as they headed away.
.
"Bosco, are you alright?" she asked, finally noticing the trickle of blood from his nose.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Are you okay?"
"Yeah, he just clipped me. He didn't mean to hit me," she said.
"Faith, he was going to hit you if I hadn't stepped in," he said. She just put her head down. They got into the car.
"Well, I guess at least Davis and Sully will figure it out."
"So what? I don't care Faith. I'm in love with you and I'm not ashamed of it."
She smiled. Bosco always had a way of making her feel better, always.
They got back to her apartment. "Let me clean you up," she said. He sat down and she brought out a washcloth and cleaned up his face. The nose bleed had stopped and she wiped away the remnants of blood.
"Did we have an emotional affair Bosco?" she asked suddenly.
He sighed. "I don't know, Faith. All I know is that I couldn't wait to see you everyday. Those 8 hours together were the happiest hours of my day. I was sad when you would head home to The Jerk. I would miss you on weekends and wonder what you were doing. And God knows I care about you more than I've ever cared about anyone in my life. So, if that's an emotional affair, then yeah, I guess so. What do you think?"
"I would catch myself sneaking glimpses of you. You know I mother you to death on the job. I would look forward to work too just to see you. There were some nights where I wanted to just go with you, and not head home to Fred. I would get jealous when you would talk with Ty about some girl you met the night before. I would talk about you at home a lot. That drove Fred nuts, as you obviously heard earlier. Even when I wasn't with you, I was thinking about you. But I never realized any of this, not until you kissed me."
"Do you regret that I kissed you?" he asked, looking into her eyes.
She swallowed hard. "No. I regret that it took me so long to realize you're the one I should be with," she said.
He felt tears spring to his eyes.
"I was a fool. I loved you since the academy Faith. I should have done something about it," he said.
"Well, Bosco, that's not to say I would have dated you in the academy. You were kind of a jerk," she said.
"What? What do you mean?"
She got up and headed to the bedroom.
"Faith, get back here, what does that mean?" he asked, following her.
She changed into her pajamas. "Come on, you know what I mean. You were a pompous ass."
"Yeah, but you thought I was hot."
"See, there's a little trace of it. Don't you remember what you said to me the first time we met?" she asked.
He averted his eyes.
"Yes," he said. He remembered it like it was yesterday.
{"Mitchell, Boscorelli, to the center!" Sgt. Carter shouted in self defense class.
They both stepped out of line formation.
"Mitchell, I want to see what you got. Boscorelli, take the attack position on Mitchell," Carter said.
Bosco walked behind Faith and got her into a chokehold. Thinking it would be funny, he whispered into her ear, "Hey baby, like it?" while Carter was looking away. Faith was pissed off and he could tell. After all those were the first words he ever spoke to her. No introduction, just a wise ass remark.
"Okay, Mitchell, show me how you get out of this," Carter said.
What no one knew was that Faith had already taken self defense class. She trampled on his foot, elbowed him in the ribs and flipped him over onto his back, then straddled his chest with her knee in his neck. "NO!" she said very pointedly to his question and with that got up.
"Very nice, Faith," Carter said. "You can get up now, Boscorelli."
"I would if I could, sir," Bosco said, lying there for another minute.}
"Faith, I think I've apologized for that a million times. I can't believe what a jagoff I was then. You've been a wonderful influence on me."
"Oddly enough, Bosco, I found you attractive even that day," she said.
"Why didn't you ever make a move on me?"
"Because, I saw the women you dated. I didn't stand a chance."
"How could you say that? You have no idea do you? No idea how beautiful you are," he said.
"Bos, stop it," she said, getting up. He pulled her back down. He just searched her eyes, before lovingly kissing her lips.
"This has been my fantasy forever Faith. Forever," he said, holding her close.
"I love you," she said.
"Love you too."
.
Faith went about putting divorce papers in motion. Once Fred received them, he signed, happy to be able to live a non-secret life with Carrie. Bosco felt like they were finally free in the relationship, no Fred hanging over their heads. Faith was both sad and relieved the day the divorce was finalized.
"Hey, wanna go grab some dinner?" he asked. She hadn't said much all day, just kind of stared blankly out the window.
"No thanks. I just want to hang here, I'm wiped out."
"It might be good for you to get out and get your mind off things for awhile," he offered.
She smiled. "Thanks, but no. I really want to be alone for a while, okay?"
He sighed. "Sure, see ya later," he said, walking out.
They had two days off and he was determined that he would let her reach out to him first. He didn't understand what was happening; he thought she'd be happy to have the divorce finalized so they could get on with their relationship. The first day of the weekend, he didn't hear anything from Faith. It was killing him.
Bosco decided to get out for awhile. He opened the door to leave to find Faith on the other side of it.
"Hi," he said.
"Hi. Were you going out?"
"I was just going to take a walk. How are you doing?"
"I feel better, Boss. It just hurts, you know? I feel like I failed at marriage. Another relationship that I've failed at," she said.
"Hey. You didn't fail at marriage. Things just didn't work out. It wasn't your fault," he said, pulling her into his arms.
"I don't want to fail with you."
"First of all, Faith, if either one of us has the potential to blow this, it's me. Secondly, we won't screw it up. I think we both waited too long for this."
She nodded. "Make me a promise."
"Anything; I'll promise you anything."
"Promise me that you won't hurt me the way Fred did. Bosco, I couldn't take that again. If you cheated on me."
He cut her off. "I'll never, ever, cheat on you. If something were to change between us, I would treat you with the respect you deserve and tell you how I feel. But Faith, I can tell you, my feelings for you haven't changed in six years. I don't think they are about to now."
"I hope not. I can't believe how drastically my life changed with just a kiss," she said.
He smiled. "I can't believe I actually kissed you."
"I'm glad you did."
"So am I. You enhance my life so much and I can't wait to see where we go. You've been all I wanted since I've known you and now I have you. I won't do anything to risk that."
She smiled and kissed him. "Being with you somewhere other than a squad car and police station is a nice change of pace, Bosco. I love you."
He returned her kiss and brought her into his apartment, closing the door.
EPILOGUE
Bosco and Faith got married a year and a half after her divorce. And this time, Faith was confident she was walking down the aisle to the right man. Bosco, for his part, could barely contain his excitement over the fact that Faith was finally walking down the aisle to him. The wish they both had almost eight years ago finally came true as they exchanged vows and rings.
"They look so happy," Tee said as he and Sully watched the couple get into a limousine to head to the reception.
Sully shook his head. "Faith didn't look happy on her wedding day to Fred. Today, she just looked radiant. She and Bosco were always meant to be together, it's about time they were. Come on; let's get going over to the reception."
THE END
A special thanks to Angel Officer (formerly known as Officer Durham) for the inspiration to write this story and to my friend Melissa who gave me wonderful advice while reading and reviewing this story (i.e. phrases not to use) :-)
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Third Watch characters, just borrowing them for awhile!
Last part of Chapter 11:
Faith finished dressing and met Bosco outside the locker room. "I'm going outside," she said.
"Okay, I'll be out in a little bit, wait up, okay?"
"Sure," she said and went outside.
"Faith?" came the gentle voice. She turned and saw Fred.
Without further delay, Chapter 12:
"What do you want?" she asked coldly.
"Faith, I, I came to say I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you and I didn't mean for you to find out that way."
"You mean you never meant for me to find out."
He sighed. She approached him.
"You hurt me so badly Fred," she said, tears coming to her eyes again.
"I know. I know I did and I'm sorry."
"What made you do it, huh? What?"
"You weren't around, ever. You worked nights and I got sick and tired of being by myself all the time," he said.
"You knew what I did before we got married. You still wanted to get married," she said.
"Yeah, but I didn't know you'd keep it up after we got married. And I sure as hell didn't expect you to be having an emotional affair on the job," he said, his voice starting to rise. He was getting so pissed off that she was making this solely into his fault, like she had no part whatsoever.
"Okay, so why knowing that you were having an affair, did you put me through all that about the innocent kiss with Bosco? And an emotional affair? Fred, that's ridiculous. I was always faithful to you, I never cheated on you."
"Not physically," he said. Bosco's words. She heard Bosco's words all over again. "And the kiss with Bosco obviously wasn't so innocent, was it Faith? I guess that even though I had Carrie, part of me was really still hurt that you would cheat on me with Bosco. I never would have expected you to cheat on me."
Bosco was watching from the door of the station. He wanted to give her space on this one.
"I've never cheated on you Fred. Not physically and not emotionally."
"Come on, you admitted to me that your heart was always with Bosco."
She swallowed hard.
"All I ever heard about when we were together was Bosco. Hell, for all I know, you guys could have been doing it in the back of a squad car," he said with a sarcastic grin.
She hauled her hand back and slammed him across the face.
Upon seeing her slap Fred, Bosco took that as his cue to come out.
"You fucking bitch," Fred said, rearing his hand back to return the slap when like a flash, Bosco was upon him.
"You wanna hit someone?" Bosco asked, getting between Fred and Faith and pushing him back.
"Fuck off Boscorelli. I've had just about enough of you," Fred said, charging him and pushing him out of the way. Fred headed toward Faith again.
Bosco again got between them. "I don't think so," he said, pushing Fred away.
Just then Sully and Davis were coming out of the station. "What's this?" Sully said as they walked down the stairs.
"This is between me and that bitch," Fred said, raging mad.
He started out to talk to her to apologize and now he was convinced he wasn't wrong.
Bosco pinned him against the wall. Faith stood to the side ready to fight if she had to.
"First of all, don't you ever call her that again, ever. Second of all, not that you'll be in her life anymore, but if I ever see you raise a hand to come after her, not only will I beat the living crap out of you, but I will arrest you," Bosco hissed.
Fred punched Bosco in the face.
"Bosco!" Faith screamed as she ran toward them.
Bosco and Fred were throwing punches at each other.
"Aw, damnit," Sully said as he and Davis got into the mix. Davis restrained Bosco and Sully restrained Fred.
Faith got in the middle of the fisticuffs somehow and Fred, while flailing his arms, landed a hit to her head. She hit the pavement.
"Let me go, Davis," Bosco said, pulling away and going to Faith.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she said.
"Faith, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit you," Fred said, coming out of his state of rage.
"Whatever. I'm warning you, don't come near her again," Bosco said.
"You know, it's really only fitting that you guys are banging each other's brains out now," Fred said, his anger returning. Sully and Davis exchanged a confused look. "I think it was going on for a long time. You cheated, Faith, just as much as I did. Just as much."
"Alright Fred, let them go and get out of here," Sully said.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going," Fred said. "You cheated just as much as me Faith," he said, walking backward to his truck.
"Come on, Faith," Bosco said, helping her up.
"Are you guys okay?" Sully asked.
"Yeah, Sul, thanks. Thanks for jumping in there. You too Davis," Bosco said.
"Sure, no problem. You sure you guys are alright?" Ty asked.
"Yeah, we will be," he said and with that, they walked to his mustang.
"Hey, Sully, what do you think that was about?" Davis asked, as they watched Bosco and Faith walk away. "Well, it was fairly evident Faith's marriage is over. And, it looks like Fred is accusing her of cheating with Bosco," Sully replied.
"Do you think she is?"
"Hell if I know. Maybe. Even before she got married, Davis, she and Bosco had a special sort of bond. I wondered why they didn't get together before she got married. Bosco's quite a character, but Faith has a calming effect on him. It's actually quite miraculous."
"Damn. They do make a cute couple," Davis said.
"Come on, let's grab some food," Sully said as they headed away.
.
"Bosco, are you alright?" she asked, finally noticing the trickle of blood from his nose.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Are you okay?"
"Yeah, he just clipped me. He didn't mean to hit me," she said.
"Faith, he was going to hit you if I hadn't stepped in," he said. She just put her head down. They got into the car.
"Well, I guess at least Davis and Sully will figure it out."
"So what? I don't care Faith. I'm in love with you and I'm not ashamed of it."
She smiled. Bosco always had a way of making her feel better, always.
They got back to her apartment. "Let me clean you up," she said. He sat down and she brought out a washcloth and cleaned up his face. The nose bleed had stopped and she wiped away the remnants of blood.
"Did we have an emotional affair Bosco?" she asked suddenly.
He sighed. "I don't know, Faith. All I know is that I couldn't wait to see you everyday. Those 8 hours together were the happiest hours of my day. I was sad when you would head home to The Jerk. I would miss you on weekends and wonder what you were doing. And God knows I care about you more than I've ever cared about anyone in my life. So, if that's an emotional affair, then yeah, I guess so. What do you think?"
"I would catch myself sneaking glimpses of you. You know I mother you to death on the job. I would look forward to work too just to see you. There were some nights where I wanted to just go with you, and not head home to Fred. I would get jealous when you would talk with Ty about some girl you met the night before. I would talk about you at home a lot. That drove Fred nuts, as you obviously heard earlier. Even when I wasn't with you, I was thinking about you. But I never realized any of this, not until you kissed me."
"Do you regret that I kissed you?" he asked, looking into her eyes.
She swallowed hard. "No. I regret that it took me so long to realize you're the one I should be with," she said.
He felt tears spring to his eyes.
"I was a fool. I loved you since the academy Faith. I should have done something about it," he said.
"Well, Bosco, that's not to say I would have dated you in the academy. You were kind of a jerk," she said.
"What? What do you mean?"
She got up and headed to the bedroom.
"Faith, get back here, what does that mean?" he asked, following her.
She changed into her pajamas. "Come on, you know what I mean. You were a pompous ass."
"Yeah, but you thought I was hot."
"See, there's a little trace of it. Don't you remember what you said to me the first time we met?" she asked.
He averted his eyes.
"Yes," he said. He remembered it like it was yesterday.
{"Mitchell, Boscorelli, to the center!" Sgt. Carter shouted in self defense class.
They both stepped out of line formation.
"Mitchell, I want to see what you got. Boscorelli, take the attack position on Mitchell," Carter said.
Bosco walked behind Faith and got her into a chokehold. Thinking it would be funny, he whispered into her ear, "Hey baby, like it?" while Carter was looking away. Faith was pissed off and he could tell. After all those were the first words he ever spoke to her. No introduction, just a wise ass remark.
"Okay, Mitchell, show me how you get out of this," Carter said.
What no one knew was that Faith had already taken self defense class. She trampled on his foot, elbowed him in the ribs and flipped him over onto his back, then straddled his chest with her knee in his neck. "NO!" she said very pointedly to his question and with that got up.
"Very nice, Faith," Carter said. "You can get up now, Boscorelli."
"I would if I could, sir," Bosco said, lying there for another minute.}
"Faith, I think I've apologized for that a million times. I can't believe what a jagoff I was then. You've been a wonderful influence on me."
"Oddly enough, Bosco, I found you attractive even that day," she said.
"Why didn't you ever make a move on me?"
"Because, I saw the women you dated. I didn't stand a chance."
"How could you say that? You have no idea do you? No idea how beautiful you are," he said.
"Bos, stop it," she said, getting up. He pulled her back down. He just searched her eyes, before lovingly kissing her lips.
"This has been my fantasy forever Faith. Forever," he said, holding her close.
"I love you," she said.
"Love you too."
.
Faith went about putting divorce papers in motion. Once Fred received them, he signed, happy to be able to live a non-secret life with Carrie. Bosco felt like they were finally free in the relationship, no Fred hanging over their heads. Faith was both sad and relieved the day the divorce was finalized.
"Hey, wanna go grab some dinner?" he asked. She hadn't said much all day, just kind of stared blankly out the window.
"No thanks. I just want to hang here, I'm wiped out."
"It might be good for you to get out and get your mind off things for awhile," he offered.
She smiled. "Thanks, but no. I really want to be alone for a while, okay?"
He sighed. "Sure, see ya later," he said, walking out.
They had two days off and he was determined that he would let her reach out to him first. He didn't understand what was happening; he thought she'd be happy to have the divorce finalized so they could get on with their relationship. The first day of the weekend, he didn't hear anything from Faith. It was killing him.
Bosco decided to get out for awhile. He opened the door to leave to find Faith on the other side of it.
"Hi," he said.
"Hi. Were you going out?"
"I was just going to take a walk. How are you doing?"
"I feel better, Boss. It just hurts, you know? I feel like I failed at marriage. Another relationship that I've failed at," she said.
"Hey. You didn't fail at marriage. Things just didn't work out. It wasn't your fault," he said, pulling her into his arms.
"I don't want to fail with you."
"First of all, Faith, if either one of us has the potential to blow this, it's me. Secondly, we won't screw it up. I think we both waited too long for this."
She nodded. "Make me a promise."
"Anything; I'll promise you anything."
"Promise me that you won't hurt me the way Fred did. Bosco, I couldn't take that again. If you cheated on me."
He cut her off. "I'll never, ever, cheat on you. If something were to change between us, I would treat you with the respect you deserve and tell you how I feel. But Faith, I can tell you, my feelings for you haven't changed in six years. I don't think they are about to now."
"I hope not. I can't believe how drastically my life changed with just a kiss," she said.
He smiled. "I can't believe I actually kissed you."
"I'm glad you did."
"So am I. You enhance my life so much and I can't wait to see where we go. You've been all I wanted since I've known you and now I have you. I won't do anything to risk that."
She smiled and kissed him. "Being with you somewhere other than a squad car and police station is a nice change of pace, Bosco. I love you."
He returned her kiss and brought her into his apartment, closing the door.
EPILOGUE
Bosco and Faith got married a year and a half after her divorce. And this time, Faith was confident she was walking down the aisle to the right man. Bosco, for his part, could barely contain his excitement over the fact that Faith was finally walking down the aisle to him. The wish they both had almost eight years ago finally came true as they exchanged vows and rings.
"They look so happy," Tee said as he and Sully watched the couple get into a limousine to head to the reception.
Sully shook his head. "Faith didn't look happy on her wedding day to Fred. Today, she just looked radiant. She and Bosco were always meant to be together, it's about time they were. Come on; let's get going over to the reception."
THE END
